Free Text to Speech
  • WordTalk - a free text-to-speech program for the PC that works within WORD and Outlook and highlights each word that is read. Includes a talking spell checker and a talking thesaurus. WordTalk was upgraded in January 2009 and now includes the ability to save settings (Wow!) and you can convert your text file to a wav or MP3 file. Makes this free download even more valuable!
  • PowerTalk - free text-to-speech for PowerPoint presentations
  • Read The Words - Register first, upload file or choose text or website to read, a recording is generated which you can listen to online or download to an mp3 player, upload to a blog, etc. Very Cool tool worth letting your students explore.
  • BrowseAloudBrowseAloud reads websites aloud and highlights the words as it reads them.
Free Speech-to-Text
  • It is built into Office 2003 for Windows and VISTA. Explore it.
  • DSpeech- free text-to-speech AND speech-to-text! PC only